No throwback day for Patriots this season

Patriots fans who watched the Steelers play in their throwback uniforms on Sunday might be wondering when their team will have their day in old uniforms.

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Paul Kenyon
Posted Nov. 18, 2013 @ 3:55 pm

Patriots fans who watched the Steelers play in their throwback uniforms on Sunday might be wondering when their team will have their day in old uniforms.

The answer is not this year.

The website ProFootballTalk.com has explained that the league's new focus on preventing concussions is the reason. New England's throwback uniforms include the helmets with ``Pat Patriot'' on the side. Those helmets were white. The team's current helmets are silver.

Teams were advised by the group studying concussions not to use any throwback helmets. So the Pats had to decide whether they wanted to put the Pat Patriot logo on the silver helmets for one week or paint their helmets white.

The team decided to simply pass on playing with throwback uniforms for this year.